If you manage to find two or three, you'll likely have a significant card advantage over your opponent
For that mana cost, we already have the much more effective Chain ReactionChain Reaction
A pretty perfect card, if Im honest
(I always imagine it like being what youd get if chess had certain edge cases where rooks could fly, bishops could teleport, or for a second, pawns were driving tanks.) Since the game is built around several thousand collectible cards, and almost every card has some additional unique ability to it one way or the other, it creates an endlessly manipulable, constantly surprising experience
Once you've chosen both modes for the spell, it doesn't matter whether you continue to control a commander
Sure, I could toss in twelve or 15 counters, but thats not where I see Noyan Dar